To honor the creativity and technical expertise of so many world-class brewers, the Beer Fox selects the Craft Brew of the Week, and has listed each distinguished beer in the Beer & Brewing Newsletter at BellaOnline since December, 2004.

At the tail end of the 19th century, “Dortmunder” became a desirable commodity throughout the booming Ruhr valley of Westphalia. It was not only embraced by the industrial laborers, but became so immensely popular that it was fondly referred to as “Export.”